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After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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Meet Fox News’ Latest Contract Contributor

Media Matters for America reports that Fox News has now hired Roger Stone as a contributor. Who is Roger Stone? He’s a Nixon-era political “dirty trickster” who thinks misogyny is the best way to attack Hillary Clinton. Think I’m kidding? I’m not.

Fox News statestwice on its website that Republican political strategist Roger Stone is now a “Fox News contributor,” a title given to those with network contracts. Stone is a “professional dirty trickster” who once formed an anti-Hillary Clinton group with the acronym “C.U.N.T.” after he tried “to come up with words for B.I.T.C.H. and just couldn’t do it.”…

The conservative Weekly Standard has described Stone as a “professional dirty trickster and high priest of political hijinks.” In a 2012 profile, New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman wrote that “Stone thinks politics has gotten a lot less interesting since those Nixon days. For one, there are ‘fewer and fewer’ dirty tricks.”

Shameless smears are the currency of Stone’s career:

Established Anti-Hillary Clinton Group C.U.N.T. In 2008, Stone established the anti-Hillary Clinton group Citizens United Not Timid, which also went by the acronym C.U.N.T. The group claimed to “educate the American public about what Hillary Clinton really is” and sold shirts emphasizing the acronym. Stone explained of the group’s name: “The truth is, we sat around for hours trying to come up with words for B.I.T.C.H. and just couldn’t do it.” Below is the logo of the now-defunct group:

Comments

No, there are fewer and fewer stupid dirty tricks thought up by morons. Instead you have things like voter ID laws which are not exactly the result of genius but far above Stone’s level of intelligence.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A well-known protester who says he’s running against Congressman Paul Ryan because they share a last name should be kicked off the primary ballot for misleading prospective voters into thinking they were signing up to legalize marijuana, Wisconsin Republicans argued Thursday…

Both cases included an attempt to get someone on the ballot with the same surname as the candidate from the other party.

(In her case it was Clean Up National Television although that may be apocryphal and if true was soon changed upon realisation of acronym – not something done deliberately for fucks sake!)

Can’t wait to see Hilary Clinton as President of the USA. Wonder if the fools currently spewing about Obama (B–b–but he’s bleck!!) will manage to top their previous efforts at Teh Cwazzzzeee!!!!! shit once she’s in charge?

In her case it was Clean Up National Television although that may be apocryphal – StevoR

There’s no “may have been” about it, as I’ve pointed out to you before. The story is from a “docudrama”, Filth, The Mary Whitehouse Story. But then, your inability to tell fact from stories that happen to appeal to your prejudices is well known, as recently demonstrated in your ludicrous account of the foundation of the state of Israel.

He couldn’t come up with words five words to fit b, i, t, c, and h? Must have a shameful vocabulary. “Block Intrusive Totalitarian Clinton Hegemony” off the top of my head …. and yes it’s a mouthful, but that’s what acronyms are bloody for!